Rolfe: Commuters cope using social media

Inspired by a story this week on poughkeepsiejournal.com ("Tweet my ride: Commuters turn to social media to cope"; Aug. 20), I searched Twitter for a sense of what my fellow riders on all of Metro-North Railroad's lines have been thinking and doing.

In this age of instant communication and cellphone cameras everything and, it seems, everyone is fair game. (Perhaps you saw the viral YouTube video of the apparently drunken woman eating potato chips off the floor of a Metro-North train.)

Thus the following small sample of tweets provide what I think is a pretty apt snapshot of the railroading life this summer. There are complaints about other riders galore and plenty of vitriol directed at Metro-North, but also some humor.